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List of works by Jim van Belzen

A Convolution Method to Assess Subgrid‐Scale Interactions Between Flow and Patchy Vegetation in Biogeomorphic Models

scientific article published in February 2021

A Lévy expansion strategy optimizes early dune building by beach grasses.

scientific article published on 14 June 2019

A facultative mutualistic feedback enhances the stability of tropical intertidal seagrass beds

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

A probabilistic framework for windows of opportunity: the role of temporal variability in critical transitions

scientific article published in May 2022

Algal‐Induced Biogeomorphic Feedbacks Lay the Groundwork for Coastal Wetland Development

scientific article

Biogeomorphic modeling to assess the resilience of tidal-marsh restoration to sea level rise and sediment supply

scientific article published on 7 June 2022

Can we enhance ecosystem-based coastal defense by connecting oysters to marsh edges? Analyzing the limits of oyster reef establishment

scientific article published in 2021

Changes in diatom patch-size distribution and degradation in a spatially self-organized intertidal mudflat ecosystem.

scientific article published in March 2012

Drought, Mutualism Breakdown, and Landscape-Scale Degradation of Seagrass Beds

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Ecological Approaches to Coastal Risk Mitigation

Elevated micro-topography boosts growth rates in Salicornia procumbens by amplifying a tidally driven oxygen pump: implications for natural recruitment and restoration

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Establishing cordgrass plants cluster their shoots to avoid ecosystem engineering

scientific article published on 5 March 2023

Estuarine biofilm patterns: Modern analogues for Precambrian self‐organization

scientific article published in April 2020

Identifying Hydro-Geomorphological Conditions for State Shifts from Bare Tidal Flats to Vegetated Tidal Marshes

scientific article published on 18 July 2020

Identifying knowledge gaps hampering application of intertidal habitats in coastal protection: Opportunities & steps to take

scholarly article by Tjeerd J. Bouma et al published May 2014 in Coastal Engineering

Increasing spatial dispersion in ecosystem restoration mitigates risk in disturbance‐driven environments

scientific article published in 2022

Integrating ecosystem engineering and food webs

scientific article published in 2014

Interactive effects of vegetation and sediment properties on erosion of salt marshes in the Northern Adriatic Sea.

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Low-canopy seagrass beds still provide important coastal protection services

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Management of local stressors can improve the resilience of marine canopy algae to global stressors

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Mechanistic Modeling of Marsh Seedling Establishment Provides a Positive Outlook for Coastal Wetland Restoration Under Global Climate Change

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Morphodynamic signatures derived from daily surface elevation dynamics can explain the morphodynamic development of tidal flats

scientific article published in November 2022

On the use of large-scale biodegradable artificial reefs for intertidal foreshore stabilization

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Processes limiting mussel bed restoration in the Wadden-Sea

scholarly article by Hélène de Paoli published in September 2015

Promoting self‐facilitating feedback processes in coastal ecosystem engineers to increase restoration success: Testing engineering measures

scientific article published on 27 June 2020

Quantifying critical conditions for seaward expansion of tidal marshes: A transplantation experiment

scholarly article by Alexandra Silinski published in February 2016

Salt marsh establishment in poorly consolidated muddy systems: effects of surface drainage, elevation, and plant age

scientific article published on 27 September 2021

Sediment availability provokes a shift from Brownian to Lévy-like clonal expansion in a dune building grass

scientific article published on 12 November 2020

Self-organization of a biogeomorphic landscape controlled by plant life-history traits

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Shellfish Reefs Increase Water Storage Capacity on Intertidal Flats Over Extensive Spatial Scales

Sprouting as a gardening strategy to obtain superior supplementary food: evidence from a seed-caching marine worm

scientific article published in December 2016

The role of changing climate in driving the shift from perennial grasses to annual succulents in a Mediterranean saltmarsh

scholarly article by Elisabeth M. A. Strain et al published 25 May 2017 in Journal of Ecology

The role of seagrasses in coastal protection in a changing climate

scholarly article by Barbara Ondiviela et al published May 2014 in Coastal Engineering

Transitional polders along estuaries: Driving land-level rise and reducing flood propagation

scientific article published in 2022

Vegetation recovery in tidal marshes reveals critical slowing down under increased inundation

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Vegetation recovery on neighboring tidal flats forms an Achilles' heel of saltmarsh resilience to sea level rise

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

Windows of opportunity for salt marsh vegetation establishment on bare tidal flats: The importance of temporal and spatial variability in hydrodynamic forcing

scholarly article by Zhan Hu et al published July 2015 in Journal of geophysical research. Biogeosciences

Zooming in and out: Scale dependence of extrinsic and intrinsic factors affecting salt marsh erosion

scholarly article by Heng Wang et al published July 2017 in Journal of geophysical research. Earth surface